Dr Cottom added: "The health risks resulting from plastic pollution affect some of the world's poorest communities, who are powerless to do anything about it. By improving basic solid waste management ...

Residents of Siddapur in Kothur mandal began a relay hunger strike on Oct 4, demanding cancellation of GO 641, which ratified ...

Whenever we talk about waste, we always see environmental pollution and river pollution. But we can actually utilise it, Smriti Karmakar says.

At the September regular press conference of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on September 22, relevant officials introduced that in recent years, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has ...

The "National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution: Part Three of a Series on Building a Circular Economy for All" provides an ambitious approach to reduce and recover plastics and other materials, ...

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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- While much of the conversation around plastic pollution focuses on recycling and cleanup efforts, these approaches address the symptoms, not the root cause. The true solution lies ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...